huiya
A drawing software designed with SAI as its benchmark.
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huiya is a lightweight Windows painting app built around smooth, pressure-sensitive brushwork. It offers a color-smudge brush engine, layers with masks, clipping and blend modes, selections, liquify and mesh warp, plus color adjustments like levels and curves. Save layered projects, export transparent PNGs, and work fully offline in Chinese, English or Japanese — all from a single executable with no installation.
PH · launched Nov 10, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: digital painting and drawing software · 68 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▲ +80% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Art
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Could you build this?
Partial The layers, masks, blend modes, selections, and color adjustments are standard UI and image-processing work that a vibe-coded app could cover. A competitive SAI-class product needs a high-performance pressure-sensitive brush engine and tablet input integration that vibe coding alone won't produce.
What it would actually take: The core stack would be a native Windows app (C++/Win32 or Qt) with a GPU-accelerated canvas, tiled pixel buffers, and Windows Ink or Wintab for pen pressure and tilt. The hard parts are a brush engine that stays responsive at large canvas sizes and the smudge, liquify, and mesh-warp algorithms, which need graphics programming expertise and extensive tuning against real tablets.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 47 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #23 of 48 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 215 days after the earliest competitor.
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- corel-painter-desktop · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.37
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